Remote Sensing

Advancements in AI-Based Remote Sensing Object Detection

edited by

and Daniele Pannone

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3928 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep learning; image recognition; change detection; object detection; tracking; monitoring; new sensors; algorithms; applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)

Advances in Remote Sensing for Regional Soil Moisture Monitoring

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submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3413 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; soil moisture; water resources management; regional scale; hydrological processes; data integration and interpretation; multi-sensor remote sensing observations

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)

Monitoring and Modelling of Geological Disasters Based on InSAR Observations: 3rd Edition

edited by

Chisheng Wang

,

Bochen Zhang

,

Chuanhua Zhu

and Bin Zhang

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2495 | Submission Open

Keywords: InSAR; geological disaster; disaster monitoring; disaster modeling and interpretation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)

Advanced Satellite Earth Observing Technologies for Weather and Climate Resilience

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and Longjiang Li

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2434 | Submission Open

Keywords: satellite Earth observations; GNSS atmospheric monitoring; International GNSS Service data and products; severe weather forecasting; climate risks assessment; environmental monitoring; numerical weather prediction model; artificial intelligence (AI)-empowered climate model; GNSS tropospheric tomography; miscellaneous advanced methodologies and applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Atmospheric Remote Sensing)

Quantitative Remote Sensing for Vegetation Phenology and Regional Landscape Patterns

edited by Ke Huang,

Jiaxing Zu

, Ning Chen and Xiaowei Tong

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2434 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; vegetation dynamic; climate change; landscape pattern; cross-scale; vegetation phenology applications

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)

Advances in Pedestrian Positioning and Navigation Based on Ultra-Wideband Technology

edited by

Vincenzo Di Pietra

and

Paolo Dabove

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1952 | Submission Open

Keywords: ultra-wideband (UWB); android; smartphone; indoor positioning and tracking; multisensor integration and fusion; PNT; GNSS; cooperative positioning; seamless navigation; ubiquitous positioning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

New Insights from Wind Remote Sensing

edited by Stefano Letizia, Peter Brugger, Matteo Puccioni and Sonia Wharton

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1484 | Submission Open

Keywords: wind lidars; wind radars; satellite imaging of wind fields; virtual remote sensing; uncertainty quantification of remote sensing; wind resource assessment; thermodynamic profiling for wind energy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Atmospheric Remote Sensing)

Crop Biophysical Parameters Retrieval Using Remote Sensing Data (Second Edition)

edited by

Jiangang Liu

,

Bo Li

and

Zhenjiang Zhou

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1187 | Submission Open

Keywords: crop biophysical parameters; optical remote sensing; active remote sensing; multisource data integration; radiative transfer model; deep learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)

3D Reconstruction in Cultural Heritage Conservation Through Range-Based and Image-Based Techniques

edited by

Domenica Costantino

and

Vincenzo Saverio Alfio

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1160 | Submission Open

Keywords: range and imaged-based techniques; three-dimensional (3D) datasets; 3D modelling; BIM; FEM; digital twin; cultural heritage; G.I.S.; big data

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Remote Sensing)

Deep Learning for Multi-Source Remote Sensing Image Interpretation: Exploring, Rethinking, and Limiting Breakthroughs

edited by

Xin Zhang

, Xueyao Hu, Yang Li,

Fernando José Aguilar

and

Muhammad Yasir

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 307 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-source remote sensing image processing; remote sensing image generation; multimodal remote sensing image interpretation model; target characteristic analysis; radar signal processing; new task dataset and benchmark for remote sensing image interpretation

(This special issue belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)

Remote Sensing Applications in Natural Hazards and Sustainable Development

edited by

Yaohui Liu

, Bo Yu and

Fangbin Liu

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 232 | Submission Open

Keywords: natural hazards; risk; sustainable development goals; resilience; flood; earthquake; geology; landslide; ecology; fire; sustainably

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Using Atmospheric Components as Tracers for Optical Remote Sensing in Different Height Regions

edited by Guotao Yang and Zelong Wang

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 90 | Submission Open

Keywords: optical remote sensing; lidar; airglow; metal layer; atmosphere detection

(This special issue belongs to the Section Atmospheric Remote Sensing)

Machine Learning at the Object: Fine-Grained Extraction and Analysis in Remote Sensing

edited by

Yongyang Xu

, Zhong Xie, Sheng Hu and

Anna Hu

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2975 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep learning; machine learning; remote sensing applications; classification; segmentation; remote sensing interpretation; pattern recognition; height extraction; object detection; land use and land cover; vision transformer model; multi-source remote sensing data

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)

New Image Processing Theories and Methods in Hyperspectral Remote Sensing

edited by

Yuxiang Zhang

, Meng Xu,

Yulei Wang

and

Mingming Xu

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1329 | Submission Open

Keywords: rectification; denoising; restoration; and enhancement; feature selection and extraction; super-resolution; clustering; unmixing; and image fusion; classification; target detection; change detection; segmentation; and scene recognition; deep learning algorithms designed for hyperspectral remote sensing image processing; application of hyperspectral remote sensing image processing results; opportunities and challenges in hyperspectral remote sensing image processing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)

Advances in Remote Sensing and AI for Monitoring and Mitigating Land Subsidence and Secondary Geohazards

edited by Jing Wang,

Sen Du

,

Joaquín Menéndez

and Xiwei Fan

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 296 | Submission Open

Keywords: land subsidence; InSAR; GNSS deformation monitoring; 3D deformation analysis; machine learning/deep learning; subsidence modeling; GPS optical image urban monitoring

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)

Selected Papers from the XXI Brazilian Remote Sensing Symposium—SBSR 2025

edited by

Luiz E. O. C. Aragao

,

Yosio Edemir Shimabukuro

,

Marcos Adami

and Lubia Vinhas

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 178 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban area; agriculture; forestry; land use and land cover; geoinformatics; radar; lidar; hyperspectral; time series; water

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Cutting-Edge PolSAR Imaging Applications and Techniques

edited by Dapeng Tao,

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submission deadline 25 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 53 | Submission Open

Keywords: multitemporal SAR/PolSAR; polarimetric target decomposition; change detection; PolInSAR; deep learning for PolSAR image; land coverage mapping and classification

(This special issue belongs to the Section Earth Observation Data)

Space-Photogrammetry for High-Precision Measurement by Multi-Sensor Data Fusion

edited by Rujin Zhao,

Zhenming Peng

and

Xiong Xu

submission deadline 28 Aug 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1676 | Submission Open

Keywords: space target; high-precision measurement; remote sensing; information fusion; space photogrammetry; spectral measurement

LiDAR Technology for Autonomous Navigation and Mapping

edited by

Yiqing Yao

and

Johnson Ihyeh Agbinya

submission deadline 28 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 213 | Submission Open

Keywords: LiDAR odometry; simultaneous localization and mapping; obstacle detection and avoidance; 3D mapping; multi-sensor fusion; autonomous vehicles

(This special issue belongs to the Section Engineering Remote Sensing)

Forest Disturbance Monitoring with Optical Satellite Imagery

edited by Antoine Masse and

Nikolay S. Strigul

submission deadline 28 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 137 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest disturbance; optical remote sensing; forest degradation; forest monitoring multi-source data fusion; data calibration and validation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Forest Remote Sensing)

Advances in High-Resolution Crop Mapping at Large Spatial Scales

edited by

Lingbo Yang

and Pengliang Wei

submission deadline 28 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 77 | Submission Open

Keywords: high-resolution crop mapping; remote sensing for agriculture; large-scale crop monitoring; multi-source satellite data; crop classification; machine learning in agriculture; temporal dynamics of crops; agricultural change detection; precision agriculture; remote sensing applications in food security

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)

Local-Scale Remote Sensing for Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation

edited by

Jesper Erenskjold Moeslund

submission deadline 29 Aug 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 12275 | Submission Open

Keywords: biodiversity; ecology; local scale; remote sensing; conservation; restoration; laser scanning; satellite sensors; drones

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Challenges and New Advances for Human-Climate Interactions in Cities Using Remote Sensing

edited by

Hajime Seya

and

Hasi Bagan

submission deadline 29 Aug 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 10242 | Submission Open

Keywords: Thermal environment; Urban growth; Local climate zone; Urban systems design; Urban carbon management; Disaster resilience; Land cover mapping; Image fusion; Machine learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Remote Sensing)

Applications of SAR for Environment Observation Analysis

edited by

Vahid Akbari

,

Nizar Bouhlel

,

Alireza Tabatabaeenejad

and

Esra Erten

submission deadline 29 Aug 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7898 | Submission Open

Keywords: synthetic aperture radar; earth observation; machine (deep) learning; image processing; statistical signal processing; environmental monitoring; radar polarimetry; radar interferometry; multivariate statistical analysis; big data analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Machine Learning for Spatiotemporal Remote Sensing Data (2nd Edition)

edited by

Lianfa Li

,

Xiaomei Yang

,

Yong Ge

and

Nikolaos L. Tsakiridis

submission deadline 29 Aug 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 3469 | Submission Open

Keywords: spatiotemporal modeling; spatiotemporal dependency; spatiotemporal prediction; spatiotemporal fusion; forecast; machine learning; deep learning; regression; classification; remote sensing; forecast

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Coastal and Marine Monitoring and Restoration Mapping Using UAS and Remote Sensing Systems

edited by

Niall Burnside

,

Jonathan Dale

and Matthew Brolly

submission deadline 29 Aug 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1836 | Submission Open

Keywords: UAVs; remote sensing; blue carbon; coastal vegetated systems; saltmarsh; seagrass; kelp; marine mammals; birds

(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Remote Sensing)

Remote Sensing for Soil Properties and Plant Ecosystems

edited by

Jarosław Zawadzki

submission deadline 29 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 696 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil properties; plant ecosystems; soil spectroscopy; soil monitoring; soil mapping; deep learning; multisensoral analysis; soil moisture; plant stress detection

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biogeosciences Remote Sensing)

Electromagnetic Modeling of Geophysical Prospecting in Remote Sensing

edited by

Guoqiang Xue

,

Xiaolei Tu

and Hongzhu Cai

submission deadline 29 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 539 | Submission Open

Keywords: electromagnetic modeling; geophysical prospecting; remote sensing; machine learning in geophysics; electromagnetic wave propagation; subsurface exploration; mineral exploration; groundwater detection; environmental monitoring; inversion methods; data integration; computational geophysics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Engineering Remote Sensing)

Digital Twins of the Earth: Contribution to a More Sustainable Society

edited by

Stefano Nativi

and

Paolo Mazzetti

submission deadline 29 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 396 | Submission Open

Keywords: digital twin; earth observation; sustainability; cyber-physical world (virtual worlds); Web 4.0 (intelligent web); AI

(This special issue belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)

Remote Sensing for Hydrological Management

edited by

Ram L. Ray

and

Gebrekidan Tefera

submission deadline 29 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 357 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; hydrological monitoring; hydrological extremes; hydrological models; soil moisture; water quality; water management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

Advanced Image Processing Algorithms for Object Detection and Tracking in Aerial and Satellite Imagery

edited by

Jun Zhou

,

Libao Zhang

, Junpeng Zhang and

Jue Zhang

submission deadline 29 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 194 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; deep learning; object detection; object tracking; cross-modal representation learning; hyperspectral videos

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)

Application of Remote Sensing in Snow and Ice Monitoring

edited by Qian Yang,

Xiaohua Hao

, Yanli Zhang and Yuwen Pang

submission deadline 29 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 159 | Submission Open

Keywords: snow cover; lake ice; ice dynamics; sea ice; climate change; multi-sensor and multi-source data; change detection; remote sensing applications; resources assessment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology)

SAR Target Detection and Recognition with Intelligent Methods and Its Applications

edited by Zongyong Cui, Sihang Dang,

Siqian Zhang

and Zongjie Cao

submission deadline 29 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 141 | Submission Open

Keywords: synthetic aperture radar; SAR target detection; SAR target recognition; artificial intelligence; small sample; SAR image interpretation

(This special issue belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)

Advances of Optics Imaging Technologies for Environmental Remote Sensing

edited by

Lijuan Su

and Xin Tan

submission deadline 29 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 124 | Submission Open

Keywords: spectral imaging; lidar; miniaturized optical sensor; multi-sensor integration; disaster response (wildfire; flood); pollution monitoring; AI-driven environmental analytics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Remote Sensing)

GNSS and Multi-Sensor Integrated Precise Positioning and Applications

edited by

Guorui Xiao

,

Xinghan Chen

, Peiyuan Zhou and

Lingxuan Wang

submission deadline 29 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 117 | Submission Open

Keywords: GNSS; multi-sensors integration; integration algorithms; cooperative positioning; challenging environments; precise positioning; robust positioning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Engineering Remote Sensing)

Advancements in Deep Learning for Remote Sensing: Exploring Planetary and Earth Observation Applications

edited by

Riccardo La Grassa

and

Ignazio Gallo

submission deadline 29 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 110 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep learning; earth observation; planetary science; feature detection; mapping; super-resolution; classification

(This special issue belongs to the Section Satellite Missions for Earth and Planetary Exploration)

Deep Learning for Spectral-Spatial Hyperspectral Image Classification (2nd Edition)

edited by

Jiayi Li

,

Maria Grazia D’Urso

,

Xian Guo

, Jie Yang and Xin Huang

submission deadline 29 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 100 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep learning; hyperspectral imaging; spectral– spatial classification; domain adaption; attention mechanisms

(This special issue belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)

Intelligent Remote Sensing Information Extraction

edited by

Weixun Zhou

and

Zhenwei Shi

submission deadline 29 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 92 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; information extraction; deep learning; artificial intelligence; feature extraction; image segmentation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)

Remote Sensing in Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics

edited by Xiangtian Meng,

Huanjun Liu

and

Chong Luo

submission deadline 29 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 87 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil organic carbon; remote sensing; multi-source data; spatiotemporal dynamics; deep learning model; driver analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)

Artificial Intelligence-Based Remote Sensing for Crop Information Extraction and Status Monitoring

edited by

Muhammad Moshiur Rahman

submission deadline 29 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 83 | Submission Open

Keywords: crop growth and vigour monitoring; crop phenology; crop diseases and pests; drought stress; machine learning; artificial intelligence; image processing; crop classification; yield prediction

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) in Radar Imaging: Recent Advances and Future Directions

edited by

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submission deadline 30 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2495 | Submission Open

Keywords: explainable artificial intelligence (XAI); imaging radar; synthetic aperture radar; deep learning; classification; feature extraction; change detection; automatic target recognition (ATR); object detection; convolutional neural networks

(This special issue belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)

Smart Monitoring of Urban Environment Using Remote Sensing

edited by

Darshana Athukorala

,

Yuji Murayama

and

Takehiro Morimoto

submission deadline 30 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 937 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart monitoring; future predictions; scenario simulations; land use change; climate impacts; agriculture in urban areas; urban forestry; hydrology in urban areas; landscape sustainability; urban climate; quality of life; public health; ecosystem services

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Remote Sensing)

Towards High-Precision 3D Reconstruction and Modelling from Multi-Sensor Geospatial Data

edited by

Ana Maria Loghin

, Bruno Vallet,

Paul Sestraș

and

Valeria Ersilia Oniga

submission deadline 30 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 423 | Submission Open

Keywords: data acquisition techniques; sensor calibration; multi-sensor integration; data integration and fusion; 3D geospatial data processing; 3D reconstruction; 3D modeling; point cloud analysis; surface reconstruction; AI/ML; semantic modeling; 3D geospatial modeling; change detection; topographic mapping; quantitative analyses and comparisons; accuracy assessment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Remote Sensing)

Remote Sensing of Mountain and Plateau Vegetation (Second Edition)

edited by

Zhaoqi Wang

,

Donghai Wu

and

Hao Wang

submission deadline 30 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 415 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing of vegetation; vegetation productivity; carbon cycle; mountain and plateau regions; alpine vegetation; remote sensing algorithm; vegetation types; elevation gradient; remote sensing in hydrology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)

Advances in Deep Learning Change Detection Based on High-Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery

edited by

Daifeng Peng

,

Sicong Liu

, Yuxing Chen and Zhi Zheng

submission deadline 30 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 171 | Submission Open

Keywords: high-resolution remote sensing imagery; change detection; deep learning; foundation model; vision-language model; label-efficient learning; domain adaptation; zero-shot learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)

Remote Sensing and Time-Series Analysis to Track Ecosystem Transitions

edited by Carolina Acuña-Alonso and

Xana Álvarez Bermúdez

submission deadline 30 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 137 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; ecosystem transitions; time-series analysis; machine learning; ecological connectivity; environmental degradation; ecological restoration; predictive models; LiDAR; UAVs

(This special issue belongs to the Section Biogeosciences Remote Sensing)

Crop Quantitative Monitoring with Remote Sensing II

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submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 12940 | Submission Open

Keywords: quantitative remote sensing; time series analysis; crop growth models; data assimilation; machine learning; deep learning; climate change; crop parameter retrieval; crop growth monitoring; crop stress monitoring; crop disaster monitoring; crop phenology detection; crop type mapping; crop yield estimation or forecasting

(This special issue belongs to the Section Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation)

3D and Semantic Reconstruction of the Urban Environment Using Multi-Modal and Multi-Resolution Remote Sensing Data

edited by

Wufan Zhao

,

Andrea Nascetti

and

Maarten Vergauwen

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 9151 | Submission Open

Keywords: machine learning/deep learning; data efficient learning (foundation model; transfer learning; self-supervised; semi-supervised; and weakly supervised learning); semantic/instance segmentation; object detection/tracking; and change detection; SCAN-to-BIM; data processing and feature extraction; point cloud registration; multisource data fusion; application of 3D point clouds and remote sensing images; spatial digital twins and smart cities

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Remote Sensing)

Intelligent Remote Sensing: AI-Powered Techniques for Enhanced Data Analysis and Interpretation

edited by

Hai Wang

,

Nianyin Zeng

and Shou Feng

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 6236 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing image processing; remote sensing semantic analysis; remote sensing applications; big data analysis; data fusion; artificial intelligence; machine learning; deep learning

(This special issue belongs to the Section AI Remote Sensing)

High-Resolution Observations of Planetary Geological and Geomorphic Investigation (Second Edition)

edited by

Ákos Kereszturi

and

Jiannan Zhao

submission deadline 31 Aug 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5518 | Submission Open

Keywords: planetary geology; planetary geomorphology; planetary landforms; planetary surface processes; planetary composition; planetary geological mapping; high-resolution planetary imaging; shallow subsurface detection; space weathering

(This special issue belongs to the Section Satellite Missions for Earth and Planetary Exploration)

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